After a while of not posting, I’m happy to be back in time for a new episode of Haiku Kai, where we are exploring classical and non-classical kigo (seasonwords) for summer. Today our prompt is a classical one, change of clothes.

Chèvrefeuille tells us that in ancient Japan it was very common to change clothes with every season, but especially at the start of summer they changed from warmer clothing to cool cotton and linen clothes. He has shared a haiku from his archives about this classical prompt, change of clothes: